Posted by Black Locust on 12/24/63 11:28

In article <bPidnZnPLahoQd7eRVn-tg@comcast.com>,
"One-Shot Scot" <SonOf@Bitch.com> wrote:

> I can only hope that the movie industry will not resort to releasing
> exclusive Hi-Definition DVD titles in an attempt to force consumers into
> changing formats. They will only be cutting their own throats if they try
> this. We can look back at the DIVX fiasco to see how such an arm-twisting
> strategy turned out.

This seems unlikely. Look at how they have continued to support the
archaic 'dead in the water' VHS format all through out the DVD boom. In
point of fact, Star Wars Episode III is the first MAJOR release from a
studio to not see a VHS release of any sort, but this is happening in
late 2005; 8 years after the launch of DVD and after the fact that 9 out
of every 10 people already own a DVD player(most of them willingly so,
not because they were forced). Those poor few losers who are STILL(!)
VHSing it due to sheer ignorance and technophobia have now become
completely insignificant, so much so that Fox and other Hollywood giants
can now safely(as if it wasn't safe to do so 3 or even 4 years ago...
doh!) release even the biggest movies exclusively to DVD.

Then again, the mindset in Hollywood has now become "Suck the consumer
of every last penny by repeatedly releasing the same movies over and
over again." The way they all jumped on the UMD/PSP movie thing as
quickly as humanly possible when there's hardly even a market for movies
on the format makes me sick to my stomach. So who knows, maybe they will
eventually try to force us to upgrade by pulling that sort of stunt... I
wouldn't put anything past them anymore.
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,
and neither do we." - George Dumbya Bush

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